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vSAN 6.5 ROBO All Flash – 2-node Direct Connect Testing

vSAN 6.5 ROBO All Flash – 2-node Direct Connect Testing

vSAN 6.5 now supports using a low cost Cat6 or SFP+ TwinAX cables for cross-connect the 2 hosts. I had setup the lab to perform this ROBO setup. vSAN 6.5 also supports iSCSI which I plan to test it as well.

I did not want to go through the click through installation and therefore follow again his blog to install the vCenter using ovftool CLI method.

Had some issues with using the ovftool at the moment. Will have to update this blog again.

25 June 2017 Update

Finally got some time to perform some testing. I have been using these nodes to run nested ESXi for NSX Multi-site Lab. They are configured as individual standalone vSAN. Here are the specs to the boxes.